Who
is the author of the Qur’an? On this subject scholars have flagrantly contradicted each other. This
paper attempts to make a critical review of the major authorship theories by pressing into
service logical arguments, historical evidence, textual analysis and
scientific data.

Probably,
the
only point of agreement about the Qur’an is that it was uttered for the
first time by a man who was born in Makkah, a city of Arabia in
the 6th Century by the name of Muhammad(’~. As to the source of the
Qur’an, scholars arc divided into three main groups:

those who believe that Muhammad(~) himself was the author, those who
believe that he was not the author but learned it from another human
author or authors and those who believe that the Qur’an has no human
author but it is a word for word revelation from God.